Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Names
Family filter On/Off- Agnes Gwendoline Hunt * 1866
- Alice Isabel Morphy * 1856
- Anne Elizabeth Oldfield Havers, 1st baroness Butler-Sloss * 1933
- Anne Evans * 1941
- Annette Lidgey * 1946
- Antoinette Sibley * 1939
- Audrey Emerton, 1ª baroness Emerton * 1935
- Audrey Pellew Clifton Brown, 1ª baroness Hylton-Foster * 1908
- Barbara Jean Lyon Warnock * 1940
- Barbara Mary Ward, 1ª baroness Jackson of Lodsworth * 1914
- Barbara Muriel Mathews, 1st baroness Brooke of Ystradfellte * 1908
- Beryl Bainbridge * 1934
- Beryl Edith Bedggood * 1923
- Betty Kershaw
- Brenda Marjorie Hale, 1st baroness Hale of Richmond * 1945
- Bridget Cicely D' Oyly Carte * 1908
- Carole Jordan * 1941
- Catherine Anne MacLean * 1931
- Cicely Mary Strode Saunders * 1918
- Clara Butt * 1872
- Dame Celia Elizabeth Johnson * 1908
- Dame Cicely Veronica Wedgwood * 1910
- Dame Ellen Patricia MacArthur * 1976
- Dame Kathleen Mary Timpson * 1912
- Dame Violet Florence Mabel Goetze * 1867
- Diana Cicely Grove * 1909
- Dorothy Tangney
- Dorothy Tutin * 1930
- Eadith Campbell Walker
- Edith Evans
- Eileen Atkins
- Elaine Kellett-Bowman
- Elisabeth Frink
- Elisabeth Joy Greene * 1909
- Elizabeth Maconchy
- Elizabeth Shirley Vaughan Morgan * 1924
- Ellen Pinsent
- Emma Albani
- Esmerelda Cicely Courtneidge * 1893
- Ethel Smyth
- Eugenia Charles
- Eva Turner
- Fanny Lucy Radmall * 1857
- Felicity Lott
- Flora MacLeod, 28th chief of the Clan MacLeod * 1878
- Flora Robson
- Frances Joan Dickinson, 1ª baroness Northchurch * 1894
- Frances Yates
- Genevieve Ward
- Gillian Beer
- Gillian Weir
- Gracie Fields
- Gwen Ffrangcon Davies
- Gwyneth Jones
- Hariot Georgina Rowan-Hamilton * 1843
- Hazel Byford, 1ª baroness Byford * 1941
- Hazel Genn
- Helen Reeves
- Helen Violet Asquith, baroness Asquith of Yarnbury * 1887
- Hester Adrian
- Hon. Edith Helen Chaplin * 1878
- Hon. Katherine Ormsby-Gore * 1921
- Hon. Mary Spencer-Churchill * 1922
- Irene Tordoff Fritchie, 1st baroness Fritchie * 1942
- Irene Vanbrugh
- Irene Ward
- Janet Baker
- Janet Evelyn Fookes, 1ª baroness Fookes * 1936
- Janet Smith
- Jean Conan Doyle
- Jean Macnamara
- Jessica Rawson
- Jill Knight
- Joan Alston Sutherland * 1926
- Joan Plowright
- Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth * 1903
- Josephine Barstow
- Joyanne Bracewell
- Joyce Anne Clarke, 1ª baroness Anelay * 1947
- Judith Anderson
- Judith Hart
- Julia Babette Sarah Neuberger, 1ª baroness Neuberger * 1950
- Julia Higgins
- June Clark
- June Kathleen Lloyd, 1st baroness Lloyd of Highbury * 1928
- Katharine Ramsay * 1874
- Kathleen Kenyon
- Kathleen Lonsdale
- Kelly Holmes
- Kiri Te Kanawa
- Lady Moyra Blanche Madeleine Ponsonby * 1918
- Laura Knight
- Leah Manning
- Leonie Kramer
- Lilian Braithwaite
- Linda Dobbs
- Lorna May Boreland-Kelly
- Lydia Selina Dunn, 1ª baroness Dunn * 1940
- Madge Kendal
- Maggie Teyte
- Malvina Major
- Margaret Berenice Price * 1941
- Margaret Guilfoyle
- Margaret Helen Anderson McEwan * 1863
- Margaret Scott
- Margaret Weston
- Marie Breen
- Marie Tempest
- Marion Roe
- Mary Arden
- Mary Cartwright
- Mary du Caurroy Tribe * 1865
- Mary Durack
- Mary Peters
- May Whitty
- Mervyn Pike
- Millicent Fawcett
- Miriam Louise Rothschild * 1908
- Moura Lympany
- Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned * 1959
- Muriel Spark
- Myra Hess
- Nancy Buttfield
- Naomi James
- Ngaio Marsh
- Norma Major
- Pat Evison
- Pattie Maie Leckie * 1899
- Pauline Green
- Peggy Fenner
- Raigh Roe
- Rebecca West
- Roma Mitchell
- Rosalind Hurley
- Rosalyn Higgins
- Rose Heilbron * 1914
- Rose Macaulay
- Ruth Lynn Deech, 1ª baroness Deech * 1943
- Sally Powell
- Sandra Dawson
- Sheila Quinn
- Sheila Valerie Masters, baroness Noakes * 1949
- Shirley Cohen * 1930
- Sibyl Mary Collings, 21st dame of Sark * 1884
- Sister Mary Leo
- Steve Shirley
- Sybil Rachel Betty Cecile Sassoon * 1894
- Sybil Thorndike
- Sylvia Denton
- Sylvia Mary Harrison * 1904
- Tanni Grey-Thompson
- Te Atairangikaahu, rainha dos Maori * 1931
- Thora Hird
- Whina Cooper
- A. S. Byatt * 1936
- Adeline Genée * 1878
- Agatha Christie * 1890
- Alicia Markova * 1910
- Anita Perella * 1942
- Anna Neagle * 1904
- Barbara Cartland * 1901
- Catherine Cookson * 1906
- Cleo Laine * 1927
- Dame Anne McLaren * 1927
- Daphne du Maurier * 1907
- Darcey Bussell * 1969
- Diana Rigg * 1938
- Edith Sitwell * 1887
- Elisabeth Schwarzkopf * 1915
- Elizabeth Taylor * 1932
- Gladys Cooper * 1888
- Graça Machel * 1946
- Helen Mirren * 1945
- Jane Goodall * 1934
- Judi Dench * 1934
- Julie Andrews * 1935
- Maggie Smith * 1934
- Margaret Rutherford * 1892
- Margot Fonteyn * 1919
- Mary Quant * 1934
- Mary Warnock, 1st baroness Warnock * 1924
- Ninette de Valois * 1898
- Olivia de Havilland * 1916
- Paula Rego * 1935
- Peggy Ashcroft * 1907
- Shirley Bassey * 1937
- Silvia Cartwright * 1943
- Simone Veil * 1927
- Thea King * 1925
- Vera Lynn * 1917
- Vivien Duffield * 1946
- Vivienne Westwood * 1941
- Wendy Hiller * 1912
- Zara Bate * 1909
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